Beatzarre

Vincent Stein (born 10 October 1983), known professionally as Beatzarre, is a German music producer, singer, rapper, songwriter and photographer. He became known both as a musician and member of the all-around duo SDP, and through his work as a producer in the German hip-hop scene. He frequently collaborates with producer Djorkaeff.

After Dieter Bohlen and the producers The Cratez, he is, along with Djorkaeff, the music producer with the third most number-one hits in Germany. He also ranks fourth on the list of musicians with the most BVMI-certified record sales.

Beatzarre began experimenting with rock and punk in the late 1990s. According to his own account, he only came to hip-hop through his interest in crossover music between rock and hip-hop, such as Rage Against the Machine.^[1] Beatzarre first appeared in 2004 as the producer of a remix of the song "Geht's dir schon besser" by the pop duo Ich + Ich.^[2] Soon after, he produced songs for the rapper Prinz Pi^[3] and in the following years for various rappers (e.g., Sera Finale,^[4] G-Hot,^[5] MC Basstard),^[6] primarily from the Berlin scene. He has been working with the Akai MPC von Akai (eg. Akai MPC 2000), which is well-known on the scene, since his early days.^[1]

Beatzarre became known to a wider audience in 2009 through his collaboration on the album Fler by the rapper of the same name.^[7] This was followed by productions for other well-known rappers such as Sido^[8] and Bushido^[9] as well as various national and international pop productions.^[2]

Stein studied music, education, and communication sciences at the master's level, but does not hold a degree.^[10] For the university, Stein conducted a field study on the delivery of educational content.^[11] This research project is called "Rapucation", which visited Berlin primary schools and presented rap songs with an educational focus. "Rapucation" is part of the 2007 thesis of Robin Haefs at the SAE Institute.

In 2014, he produced and wrote the winning song "The One" for Deutschland sucht den Superstar contestant Aneta Sablik together with Djorkaeff, B-Case and composer Oliver Pum ihren Siegersong The One.^[12] A week later, the track was number one in the German, Austrian and Swiss singles charts.

Beatzarre became known primarily for producing music for rappers such as Capital Bra,^[13] Bushido,^[9] Sido,^[8] Fler,^[7] Cro and Samra^[14] as well as singers Mark Forster and Vanessa Mai.^[15] He frequently collaborates with the producer Djorkaeff.^[16]

He also works as a photographer and has already taken official press photos for artists such as Capital Bra, Samra, Sido, Bushido, Clueso and Alligatoah.

Studio albums

• Echo Pop
  • 2010: Best video (national) for the single Hey du! by Sido^[17][18]
  • 2012: Best video (national) for the single So mach ich es by 23^[19][20]
• 1 Live Krone 2022 “Best Live Act” as part of SDP^[21]

• Media related to Vincent Stein at Wikimedia Commons